Definitions for burning-glass

burning-glass burning glass

Burning-Glass is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 765 anagrams from letters in burning-glass (-abggilnnrssu).

Definitions for burning-glass

noun

  1. a converging lens used to produce heat or ignite substances by focusing the sun's rays.

Origin of burning-glass

First recorded in 1560-70

Examples for burning-glass

I took some of my own hair, frizzled it with a burning glass, and gave it to him.

That burning glass is what did it, said one more reflective man.

This was notably the case with The burning glass, her last novel.

That collector field of ours gathers energy just like a burning glass.

The action is that of a burning glass, and extends throughout the leaf-tissues.

All in vain: moonlight gives no heat, even through a burning glass.

When we got back to the hotel he amused us by setting fire to a glass of alcohol with a burning glass.

Or broken bottles in the furze act as a burning glass in the sun.

The effect may be compared to playing the point of a ray of sunlight focussed through a burning glass.

That's how that wise man what's his name with the burning glass.

Word Value for burning-glass
Scrable

10

Words with friends

15

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